Thursday 30 August, 2018

I started this session of Nier Automata within a village of peaceful robots. As I walked around interacting with them, they all said things along the line of "we don't want to fight" and "we surrender". This village also had various quests and shops so it seems like it is another home base. I was asked by the villages leader to bring a gift to the resistance camp as a show of peace. As I delivered the message, I learned that the leader of the resistance camp had already been in contact with the village and had been trading with them for quite some time already. The resistance camp leader asked me to bring some oil back to the robot village so I left to go back to the village. As soon as I delivered the oil, robots had attacked the resistance camp. After defeating the robot army, the ground collapsed and left a huge hole in the middle of the city. Once again a feel as though this game is testing if I trust the peaceful robots or not. Every time I meet peaceful robots, something goes wrong soon after. If they are truly not involved in the fighting, should they still be held responsible for the actions of other robots. I hope the game will address my questions in the future.

Good work Andrew! You have some interesting discussion companion that was destroying seemingly peaceful robots as well as how the game is asking the player to view and categorize the robots (this theme came up with the question “should they (the robots) be held responsible for the actions of the other robots?”). You have some good analyses here that you could expand upon in your OPA.